Time course for arm and chest muscle thickness changes following bench press training

Interventional Medicine and Applied Science

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 217-220

  Ogasawara, Riki ^a   Thiebaud, Robert ^b   Loenneke, Jeremy ^b   Loftin, Mark ^c   Abe, Takashi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

B mode ultrasound; muscle hypertrophy; muscular strength; strength training; trunk muscle thickness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871993449     PISSN: 20611617     EISSN: 20615094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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